Rail-joint chair.



No. 852,206. I PATENTED APR. 30', 1907 G. W. STROTHBR.

RAIL JOIINT CHAIR.

APPLICATION gIiJ-ID SEPT. 19, 1906.

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UNITED STATES t-ram QFFIQF.

GEORGE lVASl-IINGTON STROTHER, OF JEN IFER, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF TO JOHN H. WILSON, OF JEN IFER, ALABAMA.

RAIL-JOINT CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed September 19,1906. Serial No. 335.299.

To 0//// whom it 772/6112] concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE \VAsrnNeToN STROTHER, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Jenifer, in the county of Talladega andState of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements inRail-Joint Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rail joint chairs and one of the principalobjects of the same is to provide means for securing the meeting ends ofa pair of railway rails which will dispense with the usual bolts whichpass through the fish plate and through the web of the rail.

Another object is to provide simple and eflicient means for firmlyuniting the meeting ends of railway rails without the use of throughbolts and which will effectively prevent the spreading or creeping ofthe rails.

These and other objects are attained by means of the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the meeting ends of two railway rails unitedby means of my rail joint chair. Fig. 2 isa plan view of the chairremoved from the rails. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3,Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of one of the fish plates or splicebars, partially broken away.

Referring to the accompanying drawing for a more particular descriptionof my invention, the numerals 1 designate the meeting ends of therailway rails and 2 are the ties located at a short distance from theends of said rails. The splice bars 3 each consist of a vertical flangeprovided with inwardly extending longitudinal beads 1 designed to bearagainst the under surface of the tread portion of the rails and at thesides of the upper portion of the web of the rails, as shown in Fig. 3,a similar bead 5 bearing upon the web of the rail at the point where itjoins the base of the flange portion. Between the beads i and 5 a space6 is provided. When desired through bolts may be used for connecting thesplice bars 3 to the web of the rails and when so used, the bolts willcrowd the upper bead 4 and the lower bead 5 against the under surface ofthe tread portion of the rail and against the top of the flange portionthereof, as will be obvious. The inclined flanges 7 of the splice barsfit the outer surface and outer edge of the rail flange and are providedwith marginal spike recesses 8, as shown in Fig. 4.

The rail chair consists of the two oppositely inclined flanges 9, saidflanges adapted to fit the upper surface of the flanges 7 of the splicebars, as shown in Fig. 3, and to provide a space between said flangesfor the meeting ends of the rails and for the lower portions of thesplice bars 3. At the central portion of the rail chair the flanges 9are enlarged, as at 10, and connecting said enlarged portion is a crossbrace 11 which extends from the lower portion of the flanges 9, saidcross brace fitting and filling the space between the two ties 2,2, soas to firmly hold the chair against slipping endwise of the rails. Spikeapertures 12 are formed in the outer edges of the flanges 9 toaccommodate the spikes 13 and 14, said spike apertures being arrangedout of'alinement, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The spike apertures S inthesplice bars 3 are adapted to register with the spike apertures 12through which the spikes 14 are driven and the result of thisarrangement secures the splice bars and rail chair against slidinglongitudinally and also prevents the spreading of the rails laterally,while the cross brace 1 l firmly holds the parts from shitting or movingin either direction, longitudinally of the track.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that by means of a rail jointchair and splice bars made in accordance with my invention, themeetingends of the rails may be firmly held together without the use ofthrough bolts and that in case it is desired to use the through bolts,the splice bars will be rigidly braced a ainst the lower surface of thetread portion oi the rail and the upper surface of the base flangethereof to provide a strong, rigid, durable and eflicient rail joint.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

The herein described rail splice consisting of splice bars disposed uponopposite sides of the rail joint, said splice bars each being providedwith a longitudinal rib to bear against the web of the rail at a pointunder the head of said rail, and a rib to bear against the web of therail at the top of the base flange thus providing a space between saidribs at each side of the web of the rail, and a rail chair consisting ofenlarged central portions and oppositely disposed flanges to rest uponthe upper surface of the splice bars, a cross brace i In testimonywhereof, I a'HiX my signature connecting said enlarged 1clentralpolrtipn, said in presence of tWo Witnesses.

cross brace 1 in in a orizonta p ane to 7 1 span the spacg be tween theties at the joint of GEORGE WASHINGTON STROLHER' the rails, and spikeapertures provided in the WVitnesses: outer edges of said flanges,essentially as de- 5 T. M. DRAPER, scribed. l WV. D. SMYTI-I

